Russia to help North Korea to bypass sanctions – media

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Россия помогает КНДР в обход санкций, - СМИPyongyang often uses techniques to bypass international trade sanctions imposed over the nuclear program of the DPRK.

This year from Russia at least 8 tankers in North Korea went home and announced to other destinations. All the tankers were loaded with diesel fuel.

About it reports Reuters.

As reported a source in the company who was servicing the ships of Korea in Vladivostok, the carrying capacity of the tankers ranged from 500 to 2 thousand tons. One of the tanker was a North Korean Ma Du San. At the terminal of the “First river” belonging to the Russian “Independent oil companies” (NOCS), Ma Du San downloaded 545 tonnes of marine fuel. In the bill of lading stated that the fuel came from the Khabarovsk oil refinery, which is owned by NOC.

The newspaper reminds that the US Treasury Department June 1, made of NNK to its sanctions list, saying that the company supplied oil to the DPRK and could be involved in the violation of the sanctions regime.

It is reported that in the future loaded fuel tankers came from the ports of Vladivostok and Nakhodka, and pointed out in the Information system of port state control as destinations China and South Korea. However, after leaving Russia, the tankers were near the North Korean ports of Kipchak, Chongjin, Hungnam, and Rajin. It is noted that none of the ships then went to China, and most returned to Russia.

At the same time, the publication has no information that the court, whose movement is reflected in the monitoring data in the information systems of Reuters, broke the law. After all, the ship that is in the way, not forbidden to change the destination. So it’s not clear, did some of the tankers unloading fuel in the DPRK.

But US officials argue that the change of destination halfway is one of the characteristics of tactics used by the DPRK to bypass international trade sanctions imposed over military programs of Pyongyang.

“As part of ongoing efforts of North Korea, aimed at receiving income, the regime uses the network of Maritime transportation for import and export of goods. North Korea uses deceptive actions to conceal the true origin of these products. It was discovered that Pyongyang regularly distorts the identification and documentation of vessels,” said assistant Secretary of the Treasury Marshall Billingsley of the house of representatives Committee on foreign Affairs.

The publication notes that the DPRK through such complex and intricate chains trying to complicate attempts to check how much fuel comes into the country and observed whether the restriction on imports within the limits of the UN sanctions.

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